San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-09-28
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

TIE Bean pOrrdge at Bonham still
affords good nOurishment for the law
yers.
The frost that nipped Virginia and
Indiana tobacco sent It's feelers q long
way south for the month of September.
lNAsMUCH as Austin cannot keep her
DriskiII hotel running why not move it
down TO West End and set 1t up on the
syndicate ground.
Is IT the freedom OF line press that Is
heing interfered with at Galveston or
only the freedom Of some foolish nOtO-
rIcty at the public expense? Galveston
ID not appearing to advantage in this
matter.
The Poarsall News is little previous
in announcing Lincoln and Grant as the
republican combination for 1888. There
Il 10 likelihood OF such combination in
fact. 1t has for its foundation only the
barrless fabric OF democratic magma
ton.
lT has been left to the country press OF
Texas to vindiCate the discourtesy OF
MIS-. CleYeIand's refusal to recognize
Gov. Foraker and his lady at the Phila.
deiphia reception. Other democratic
journals have more sense.
The hope that Feirchild and futile
will he sent to the rear at St. Louis does
not promise to materialize in view of
that commanders badge. The G.. AR.
love FairChild and futile on account Of
the enemies they have made.
The hedging has already commenced
on the outcome OF the Ohio elestion.
The democratic journals which are not
N "A lnl,. T.. a..
other, see the inevitable and foreCasting
Powell's defeat cuss Foraker's mouth
with the greater gusto.
Now that the Haddock murder trial
is ended and the verdict rendered, man.
slaughter, the jurists Of the press are
coming to the front with the indictment
and showing quite COnclusively that no
such verdict was admissible. 1t WAS
conspiracy to murder or nothing. The
facts are that prohibition sentiment de-
handed verdict and the jury did not
have Ceurage to refuse.
Russia, which for fifteen wears has
used liquid fuel for its fleet OF gun boats
and transports on the Caspian sea, has
ordered liquid fuel for her irOnclads.
This experiment will be watched with
interest, as such fuel only requires about
OnG-third the space of coal. can be
turned on or off like gas, emits no smoke
and dispenses with all banking of fires
TOMORROW Is the election in Tennes-
sec. Like yesterdays race in New York
bay, the result will be more certain after
the event. Still, the probabilities are
that the American Idea OF personal
rights will win In Old HickOry's state,
and that an offensive puritanism will not
invade the shades Of the Hermitage.
WHEN the public institutions of this
state are located sensibly with reference
to the best interests OF the state. and
such places chosen as nature has most
fully designed for such locations, and
not put up to the highest bidder with
possible perquisites to the locator, there
will be no more Of the fool business
which seems to characterize the location
of the orphan asylum.
The Matagorda militia marched up
the hill and then marched down again,
The mighty contingent Of twenty men
ordered from Houston were halted
before reaching the scene of the fight
between come ugly whites and equally
ugly cOons. There was no more need
for ordering out the MALTA than there
is of doing any other senseless thing.
The only result is TO give Texas another
black eye.
IT is quite evident from the pacific
nature OF BiImark's communication to
France that Germany is anxious to avoid
any occasion OF disturbance with her
wary and watchful neighbor on the
other side Of the Rhine. Il seems equal
ly evident that the car lie particularly
anxious to keep in the good gTaces OF
Kaiser Wilhelm. The saccharine is
spread on too thick to last. Bismsrk and
the car are too much like q mule, on his
best behavior waiting for a good chance
| TO get in his heel work